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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Engel who wrote (96800)	3/4/2000 6:57:00 PM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572208

"Where do all these DESIGNS go - into UNSOLD COMPAQ SERVERS?" No... they go into high-end supercomputers and high-end multi-processor boxes. The Europeans must have had quite a few RFPs come their way... I mean if you are going to spend 30-100 million on a SuperComputer you do have a tendency to shop around. I am sure Compaq's proposal included current (in that time frame) parts for the SC (EV68s) and future CPUs (EV7 is a great engineering feat with on-chip Network controller and on-chip Memory Controller) that they were satisfied they made the right choice. Maybe Intel and partners will ship high-end McKinley boxes someday that folks will be interested in. Rob